Plymouth Tribune, Volume 5, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 January 1906 — Page 6

OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IA1PORTANT SUBJECTS

PROTECT NIAGARA FA7.LS.

,N his recent message to Roosevelt urged strongly action to protect Niagara cies now threatening its iommendod that the State self unable to protect the the example of California

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Xosemite valley and place tu!s great natural attraction in the keeping of the national government. As the only way In which assured protection can be secured for the falls Is through the co-operation of the American and Canadian .government, the American Civic Association has begun tn agitation to keep the subject before Congress and secure action upon It at this session. The American people who regard Niagara withjust pride as one of the great scenic wonders of their country and of the world, will be practically unanimous in their approval of this movement. The idea that the falls hou!d be sacrificed to commercial vandalism Is obnoxious, but that apparently must be their fate unless something

ü done immediately. Ten power developing companies four American and six Canadian already have obtained authorization to utilize mere than 35 per cent of the effective power of the fails. If their plans are put through the American cataract will be wiped out. If they succeed In drawing of? only half the authorized amount of

rater the American fall will bo only

crater passing over bare rock. If the falls are to be saved no time should be lost in arresting the process of destruction. The American people, through Congress, should Intervene with measures which will stop the despoliation and insure the permanent preservation of the cataract under the Joint protection of Canada and the United States. The essential thing Is that Congress act promptly. To delay, even until another session, may postpone the necessary protective action Ontil the time for saving the falls has passed. Chicago News.

SOUND ADVICE TO YOUNG

RESIDENT ELIOT, of harvard College, has a way of making little adresses to. entering

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classes at the old historic college that are gems in their way and worthy of wide circulation.

I His address this .year is in I c haracter of the man and the

lege. A number of his sentences are strikipg-

ty epigrammatic and won by of careful study: "It is a good rule early to work and learn how to work bard." "It is a good rule never to take four minuter to do what you can well accomplish in three. "A young man ought first to be a clean, wholesome rigorous animal." "An honorable man must be honest, not with money alone, but In judgments, judgments of women, men, h'uslory and the prospect of mankind." "It Is a safe protective rule to live to-day as If you were going to marry a pure woman to-morrow." These are sterling words that might well be emblazoned on the tablets of memory and placed high in the aecret chambers of the heart. He who lives according to these rules will enjoy peace, prosperity and sweetness of -life. Pittsburg Press.

INDUSTRIAL UNITY OF THE

NDOUBTEDLY there are manv nersons in the

U North and East of the country who think of the lireat irrigation projects to which the govern-

u-t. la i.uu.i in u as cAv.iunrij m lue interest of the communities in the regions where the many millions of public money are to be spent. Those who take this view do not fully realize

the interdependence of the various parts of the country. Who buys the greater part of the grain and cattle raised tn the Wes,t? It Is the people in the East. If the grain-crop Js poor or light the price of flour goes up. If a hard winter kills off the cattle the price of meat rises. On the other hand, if business Is slack In the East, if there Is a strike in the textile industry, or If several large manufacturers fail

THE GHASTLY HIGHWAY. Hardship of the Overland Trail In the Pay of '49. The scattering overland migration to Oregon and California beginning mo early as 184G, became a never-paralleled tide by the spring of 1819, tvhen the gold rush was really on. says Charles F. La;mis in McClure's. In all the chronicle. of mankind there Is nothing else like this translation of humanity across an unconquered wilderness. In its pathless distances. Its inevitable hardships and Its frequent sav.age perils, reckoned with the character of the men. women and children "concerned, it stands alone. Tue era was one of uatiuual hard times, but ministers, doctors, lawyers, merchants - d Tl f.i rm -r f ri of f t müma caught the new yellow fever and betook themselves to a journey fifty bjiiica ia auu udia as.uatr utiac of them bad ever taken before. Powder, lead, foodstuffs, household goods. wives, sisters, mothers and babies trode in the Osnaberg-sheeted prairie schooners, or whatsoever wheeled conveyances the emigrant could scare up, from ancient top buggies to new Conestogas; while the men rode their horses or mules, or trudged beside the -caravans. A historic party of five iFrenchmen pushed a handwagon from --the Missouri to the coast, and one man -trundled his possessions in a wheelbarrow. At its best It was an Itinerary untranslatable to the present genera?Hou: at Its worst, with Indh1.: massa- - eres, thirsts, snows, -tenderfooted-. ness" and disease, it was one of the : ghastliest highways In history. The vworat chapter of cannibalism In our -rational record was that of the Donner pi.rty, snowed In from November to .March, 1S49-50, in the Sierra Nevada. In the '50s the Asiatic cholera crawled In upon the plains and like a gray volf followed the wagon trains from the "river" to the Rockies, m the height of the migration from 4,000 to ,000 Immigrants died of this pestilence, and if there was a half mile vhere the Indians had failed to punctuate with a grave, the cholera took .care to remedy the omission. The 2,00O-mIIe trip was a matter of four months when easy, and of six with had luck. Children were born and .people died, worried greenhorns quarreled and killed one another and the 'train straggled on. r AN HISTORIC HOUSE. , JTrom Here Kebeeca Nourse Was Takea aa Witch aad Hang-ed. If thd local . historical society of .Danvers, Mass.. takes possession of -the old Nourse house, as Is their pres--ant intention," they fwü.l occupy a building wtJse story Is one of the neat dramatic In the colonial life of the nation. It was from this house In Oe days of ignorance tnd superstition that IUbecca Nourse wa.i taken .A4 a witch and hanged. The estate icras originally known as the Bishop -firm. In 1CS0 the house, which -was fcnUt about 1C35. was bought by Franlj I,Tcurr and his wife, Rebecca, tlr. Moanta had several children, and Ca prosperity of the family excited te enry of the neighbors, March 23, a warrant was Issued on com-C'li-.t cf nirrari and Jonathan Put-

Congress President the need of taking

falls from the agen destruction. lie recof New York, If it falls, should follow in the case of the In like manner a thin trickle of

anything to make a living. He left school at 13 and studied stenography at night. Young Ilok begau to take down the sermons of Henry Ward Keecher. Then he printed and sold tbem. This led in time to the publishing of the Brooklyn Magazine. He sold the magazine and started in to learn the publishing business. He started a newspaper syndicate. Publishers kept an eye on this hard-working young man. Mr. Curtis of Philadelphia offered him $10,000 a year to edit one of his publications. Seven years after he began With Curtis he married the latter's daughter. Asked by the interviewer who got the foregoing facts concerning the secret of his success he answered: "Work. I worked like the devil." Not a nice thing for the editor of a woman's paper to say? Mr. Bok simply meant to emphasize the word work. But he added afterwards: "Work for the delight of it." That's better. He got Into work that delighted him. He found his place. For the joy set before him he did his work. There is no finer thing in the universe than to feel you have found your place and can do something with your whole heart. There is no other way. First get into your right place. Then w-o-r-k. Work is genius. Work is brilliancy. Work is success. Find the job you delight In, and work. Cincinnati Post.

MEN. keeping with the spirit of the col , RS.

"Mrs. Gladstone," she said, "worshiped her husband in this way; but, then, she had some reason. Even in her case, though, the good lady's exaggerated wife worship would sometimes make her appear ridicu

NATION. lous. 'Thus she was a certain evening,

band, she descended to the drawing room alone. In the drawing room three or four gentlemen were discussing the misfortunes of Ireland. One of them, as she entered.

said: "'I can't imagine Erin, but there's One "Yes said Mrs. down in a minute. New York Tribune. nam for the arrest of Rebecca Nourse for witchcraft, and on the following morning she was arraigned before Justices Hawthorne and Corwin. She was Indicted for having practiced "certain detestable acts called witchcraft upon Mary Walcott and other women." She was tried in the meeting house. One of the witnesses, Ann Putnam, had a flt in court, which she charged upon the accused. In answer to the charge of witchcraft Rebecca Nourse said: "I can say before my Eternal Father I am innocent and God will clear ray Innocency." Justice Hawthorne replied, "Here Is never a one In the assembly but desires it, but if you be guilty pray God discover you." She was then committed to the Jail in Salem, and on April 11 was taken with four others to Boston by order of the council. The court met June 10, and the jury first returned a verdict of not guilty, but the crowd in the court-room made such a clamor that the Jurors again retired," and shortly after returned a verdict of guilty. The records of ' the First Church, Salem, show that on July 3, 1C02, Rebecca Nourse was excommunicated. THE OLD IfOUnSE HOUSE., She was brought up the aisles of the charch. her chains clanking, and the sentence of excommunication was pronounced. July 19, 1C02, she was taken with eighteen others from the Jail in Salem to Gallows hill, Salem, where she was hanged. Her body was later thrown among the rocks, being recovered that night by her family, taken to this town and reverently burled. July 30, 18S5, a monument to her memory was erected in the family lot near the Nourse homestead. The monument Is of granite. The die on the front is Inscribed: Rebecca Nourse, Yarmouth, England, 1621; Salem, Mass., 1C92. Also these lines by Whlttler: "O, Christian martyr, who for truth could die. When all about thee owned the hideous lie; - j The world redeemed from superstitious sway, , Is breathing freer for thy sake to,dy." . t On the reverse side of the monument la this inscription: ! "Accused of witchcraft, she de clared, I am innocent, and God will clear my lnnocency. Once acquitted, yet falsely condemned, she suffered death July 19, 1692. In loving memory of her Christian character, even then fully attested by forty of her neighbors, this monument Is erected. A mother's wlllinsnesa to make sacrifices for her children Includes hzr sons-in-law, but a father's Cccra't

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and shut down their mills, the ability of the people In the East to buy meat and flour is diminished, and the demand, falls off, to the detriment of the Western producers. Now the Irrigation plans under consideration provida for the reclamation of fifty million acres of arid Land. It has been estimated that this aiea will accommodate a population of twelve millions, engaged In various forms of agriculture. Crops can be produced morecheaply than on nonIrrigated land, therefore it is expected that the price of food will fall. At the same time the growth of a prosperous population In the arid West will increase the demand for the manufactured goods of the East, the grain of the Northwest and the cotton of the South. Not a square mile of the country can prosper without benefiting all the rest.

the Panama Canal will increase the pros

perity or the whole Mississippi Valley, the Atlantic and Pacific Coast States and all the intervening region. It is an undertaking of interest to the whole nation. Even the projected enlargement of the Erie Canal concerns the West as much as New York State. The East cannot say to the West, "I have no need of you." and the North cannot say to the South, "You have no need of me." But all parts are joined in one body, and each serves Its allotted purpose. Youth's Companion.

BOK'S SUCCESS. DWAItD KOK gets the biggest salary of any editor In this country and Is married to the daughter of a multimillionaire. A few years ago he was a poor Dutch imuigrant In New York City, selling lemonade from a bucket. Then he carried a newspaper route, cleaued windows, worked in a bakery, ran errands.

WIFE WORSHIP.

CHARLOTTE PERKINS G ILM AN was

criticising wife worship-the old fashioned, unreasoning, blind admiration that woman paid to her husband In the past, regarding

KWyJ him as the handsomest, bravest, wisest and jj m ggurit) most learned of men.

staying once at a country house, and on having finished dressing before her hus what will be the fate of poor old above who knows Gladstone, complacently; 'he will be He is upstairs brushing his hair" "IIM rici'O uinntA V I IM I I W IX J TV IUUHi Declining Year of Woman Who Wan One a Social Leader. In a little two-story wooden bouse on K street, South Boston, Mass., depending uion an Income which two decades ago would nceu ror me maintenance of one of' bei household pen-; sloners, lives Mrs. James FIsk, former-' Edward S. Stokes In 1S72 startled the MRS. JAMES .FISK. people of two continents. Less than twenty-five years ago Mrs. James Flsk, as wife of the owner of the Erie Ubad and other vast industrial holdings, was one of the most wealthy and Influential women in New York, and in absolute control of a fortune In her own right valued at millions. James Flsk was at that time, just previous to his murder by Stokes, the partner of Jay Gould, a former friend of Boss Tweed, one of the Tammany dictators, and a man whose worded menace was sulficlent to accomplish the financial ruin of any one unfortunate, enough to arouse his enmity. Then It was that Mrs. Fisk had friends In plenty, was courted alike, both for her beauty and her wealth, and, In the social world-her word carried, practically the same strength as did, that of her husband In Wall street or anywhere "on 'Change." She has seen his murderer found guilty of a crime which at first It was thought wouid send him to the gallows. She has seen that verdict revoked, a sentence of imprisonment imposed, and the murderer afterward released from Jail to regain almost the identical position forfeited by that crime. She has seen a vast fortune dissipated she has seen her husband's so-called friends with greedy hands stretch out In avarice for his widow's property, and, Incapable of resistance, has seen that husband's wealth added to the fortunes of those whom he had honestly bv friended In life. Like leavc3 In autumn, she has seen her false friends fall from her sldn has known the emptiness of social prestige and, like many another, has been glad to turn to the few faithful ones who remembered her for what she was for what she had been. To-day a woman well on to CO years, she Is content to live In practical obscurity, content, to know that she may at least exist without help, and satisfled In the confidence that sufficient Is left from her once great wealth to Insure decent burial. Her Income to-day Is scarcely $t per week, but Mrs. Flsk knows that she can live on that Sb Is satisfied with her lot and has almost forgotten what her former life had been. ' - "Sot MacTi islfference. "What's the difference between a sacred concert and an ordinary concert?" "One Is played on Sunday, and the other Isn't that's all." Baltimore Herald. A talkative employe around a place cl fcuzinccj Cera not tzm bis coUry.

m4 17 of New York '03;R1ty. and widow of Scythe James Flsk V r Jl i whose murder by

ABOUT FEEDING STUFFS. A certain part of every feeding stuff is indigestible and passes through the body into the dung without doing anything to sustain the animal, according to the Connecticut experiment station. The value of a commercial feed rests wholly in that portion of it which tl:e animal can, under favorable conditions, digest or appropriate and make a part of itself. .Some animals "have greater power öf digestion than others, and the amount of any Ingredient, protein, fat or fiber, digested by a given animal depends much on the proportion of other ingredients which are fed along with it. Taus, if starchy matter is fed in tco large proportion, a considerable part cf it will pass Into the dung and be wasted. But fed In progcr fashion over 90 per cent, of it may be taken up by the body and nourish it. A well-managed dairy farm should produce all the coarse fodder in the form cf corn fodder, . or stover, lay and ensilage which is needed fcr the stock, and, excepting under unusJial conditions, should also supply an abundance of starchy food, such as corn meal and in seme cases oats iand barley, for feeding purposes. Tjccc the farmer should be able to produce in abundance. But in order to feed them without waste and also to supply a deficiency in them it is almost always advisable or necessary in the absence of clover, a!faTfa cr oLher leguminous crcps, to buy feeds rich in digestible protein considerably richer in it than cornmo;.!. Ready mixed feeds, made of a number cf by-products or factory wastes, may wLely be let alone, unless the buyer can see for himself out of just what raw material the mixture is betag prepared. Low grade, damaged corn, shriveled wheat, peanut refuse and wheat screenings consisting large ly cf weed seeds are not infrequently found in such feeds by careful examination, hut are not easy for the buyer himself to recognize. LIVE STOCK NOTES. Sheep are enemies to the Texas fever tick. Bran and skim milk are hard to heat for making pigs grow. It is most unwise to neglect young stock during bad weather. Do not hope for a sow to raise well more pigs than she has mllkgiving teats. Sheep do not like a dark, warm harn and will not eat well or thrive in such a place. For the development of strong lambs let ewes have an abundance of exercise daily. Making pea hay on the farm will aid the soil and help make sheep raising a success. Sheep do Tint need warm quarters, but should have plenty of light and a lack cf moisture. Supply all live stock with an abundance of shade. Be especially careful cf this when nogs are concerned. For pigs, as for other young stock, sufficient exercise to produce good digestion will favor rapid development. Wcoi ashes with a Htt'e salt in them will be helpful to hogs and ir ay be placed where hogs can help themselves. Live stock is more cheaply produced in the proportion that it is grown cn grass. Aim to use grain only for finishing off. Ia feeding pigs have the troughs large enough to let all get to the feed at the same time. This will prevent the weaker ones being shoved aside and deprived cf food. Those who desire to get into stock raising and have little money to work with may well start with hogs, since they will produce returns more quickly than other kinds of stock. Prevent the sows from eating their pigs by beginning two or three month's before the pigs are born; and have the sows in a perfectly healthy condition when the pigs come. Aim at prevention, rather than cure. HOG ROOTINGS. The season of hört ribs and fresh sausage is again with us, the genuine and not the "embalmed" kind. It is too early for the general kill ing, but fresh pork tastes fine when the "frost is on the punkln." A timber lot is a good place for hogs at this season when the nuts are falling. Hogs must not be too fat to make the best meat or bring the best price. Lean meat is In the greatest demand, and that means more protein food and less corn. It al-o means longer time on pasture and shorter in the feeding pen. The hams from hogs fattened on nuts have a delicious flavor that cannot be equaled by any grain fed hogs. Pigs that have been kept thrifty and growing -on nutritious and cooling grasses are in such a healthy condition that they are able to digest large quantities of fe&d. and utilize it to the greatest extent. A pig. out of a lis, the sire of both being pigs, is much weaker In vitality and the constitutional vigor to withstand disease or hardship than the product of mature parenuye, hence the advisability of always selecting the gilt that are desired for brood sows from the litters of mature sires and dams. Swine, and particularly pigs, will generally manage some . way to spill the sJop In their haste to get the feed. To prevent this utilize a milk can (an old cne answers the purpose), turn it upside down, remove the bottom, and fasten the neck cf can to the pig's trough. .By pouring the liquid In the reverse opening none will be lost by slopping over on the ground and the pigs cannot reach It. POINTERS ON CHURNING. In the separating of cream from milk a vessel of sufficient size should be provided to hold all the cream desired for one churning, says the butter maker at Cornell. By this method a uniform development of acid will take place through the whole mass and will also lessen the loss In the buttermilk, which usually follows the mixture of several lots of cream of different degrees of acidity. Upen the addition of any cream to the vessel. It should be thoroughly mixed with that already preiett. Usually the addition of from 2 to 5 par cent, of good flavored sour milk.

thoroughly mixed with the cream, at least twenty-four hours before it is desired to churn, and the temperature brought up to as near 75 degrees as possible, allowing it to remain at this temperature until a slight coagulation takes place and a silky or mirrorlike appearance is present, will usually increase the ease of churning. The temperature should then be lowered to that point where butter will gather In from three-quarters to one and one-quarter hOTirs. The churning temperature may in extreme cases be as i high as CS to 70 degrees. National Fruit Grower. THE FIRE ENGINE DRIVER. There May be Better Drivers on Earth, but if There Are, Where Are They? Is there a better driver in the world than the man who drives the fire engine? If there is, he Is yet to be. discovered. Here was an engine coming along a cross street, to turn up an intersecting avenue. Under the edge of the rounded off corner that the machine was to turn, there was a sewer opening, with the street pavement sloping down smoothly toward it :-.l around from the high level of the street. If the driver, coming as he was, at a dead gallop, should make a broad turn arousd this corner" out where the street was level, the engine would swing more or less, nothing could prevent that, and check the horses' seed, and there would be a second or two lost before they could get the load straightened again and get under full headway with it once more, up the avenue. But if the driver could make that corner with the two wheels on the inner side of the curve dv-n in that sloping depression leading to the sewer opening close by the curb, and the two outside w l:celi. on the higher level nearer the middle of the street, why, the his her level here would be for the engine whit the banked up outer rail is for the locomotive rounding a curve, and making it so he wouldn't lose aa inch. And that's the way 'e did make It. And before he knew it a man who had been standing at the edge of this corner waiting to see the engine go by saw it so near to him and leaning in so clcse to him that he could have touched it, while the driver, aloft on his high seat and waning Inward as he was, too, was actually ! leaning ovf r h'.m as the engine passed, with Wiiistle screaming, and steam hissins, and that driver, as he flung 'em in -:Ms fashion round this curve, talking low to his horses and calling on 'em each by name a man absorbed If tliere ever was one. Thinking of nothing else in the world, tbat driver at this minute, but getting to the fire. The allied Powers mii:ht threaten Turkey, Russia might burst at any moment into revolution, It might not yet be settled whether it should be the Straits of Panama or a lock canal all such qrestions had no interest for him now, nor was he interested in anything else; what absorbed him now to the exclusion of all else on earth, was th.3 hiking of the old machine from fire hcu?e to box 4-11-44 in the shortest possible time, and hadn't he just saved two seconds by the tine werk he had done in rounding this corner? And when iL seemed but nn Instant later that you heard it you heard the scream of the engine, now far up the avenue, you knew he was getting there. It was great. Ti?ere may be somewhere in the world better drivers than the driver of the steam fire engine; but, if there are such, New Yorkers don't know where they can be found. New York Sun. A True Story. I want to tell you of something I saw take place on a crowded Boston street the other day. A dirty-faced, ragged little lad was poking about in the ash barrels for spoils. He had a tiny dog with him, quite as unkempt and uncared for as himself, but around that dog's neck was tied a bow cf faded ribbon, and his incessant -jambols and pranks found favor in the sight of his beggar-boy master. It was plain to see that the boy loved the dog, and between the two there was the complete understanding of mutual affection. Suddenly, while the dog was bounding and barking in the exuberance of canine joy and his master's eyes were sparkling with relish of this one thing in life that was his very own. there came a rapidly driven team down the crowded street. A moment later I saw a ragged boy, with set f.aco and acguihed eye, gather in his arms a maimed and dying dog and gently walk away. What had happened? Only a worthless street cur trampled to death, only a miserable little Tagpicker robbed of the sole bit of joy and comfort his life ever knew, the one friend that loved him, that was all. But there was a look in the boy's face that will keep my heart aching for many a day to come, and the fluttering bit of fancy ribbon about the dead dog's neck brought 'a mist to my eyes that hid the splendor of the bright spring morning. Our Fourfooted Friends. Turbine Steamships. The use cf steam turbines has been common for some time in stationary plants and in small vessels. Instead of the plston-and-valve arrangement which Is the foundation principle of the old-style steam engines the turbine takes . the steam directly from the boiler into a cylinder filled with, flanged wings, and the expansive force of the steam acts against these flanges on much the same principle as a turbine water wheel. There Is no alternating or reciprocal motion, but a constant rewölutlon at even pressure which can bo transmitted directly to the revolving screw. The turbine principle saves fuel, but Us greater advantages are in its simplicity of operation, the reduction of the machine parts required, the dlreot transmission of power and the freedom from vibration. . The transmission of !power from fuel to effective energy is still in its infancy. No commercial device has yet succeeded la utilizing even half the theoretic power cf coal.

SENSIBLE CUSTOM. The American fashion ot keeping pots and kettles and other kitchen utensils in a closet by themselves Instead of hanging them on hooks about the kitchen is sensible. The European way of hanging the articles in broad light may add to the picturesque effect of the kitchen but the utensils collect dust. RECIPES. Delicious Muffins Take two cups of flcur and mix well with two even teaspoonfuls of baking-powder and half a teaspconful of salt. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs to a cup of milk and a tablespconful of melted butter and mix all with the flour, and then fold in the stiff whites of the eggs. Put immediately into hot gempans and bake nearly twenty minutes. By adding another egg to this rule a Silly Lunn is made which may be baked ia two cake-tins; when cooked butter one and lay the other on top. Harper's Bazar. TO PRESERVE EGGS. Have a kettle of boiling water on the stove, and into that dip the eggs. Let them remain as long as it takes you to count ten fast. This recipe has been in use in my family for forty or fifty years. The eggs cannot be told from perfectly fresh eggs, as the hot water cooks the fine inner skin, and there can be no evaporation. There is no taste of lime about them put up in this way. It is a fine thing for country women who want to hold for better prices, and also for the city woman who wants to purchase for fu'ture use while eggs are cheap. Wcman's Home Companion. ABOUT THE HOUSE. Candles should be stored for six or eight weeks before being used; they will then burn more brightly and more slowly than when lighted at once. A half lemon rubbed on the hands will remove all srains. DriDd orange peel allowed to burn ia- a room will leave a pleasant, fresh odor. Mudstains on black cloth will disappear when rubbed with a raw potato. WASHING SILK HANDKERCHIEFS. No soap should be rubbed cn the silk; no soda should be mixed with the water and the -handkerchiefs should on no account be boiled. A hot, thick, soapy lather made with finely shred scap, should be used for cleansing the handkerchiefs, which should afterward be thoroughly freed from all soap by rinsing in plenty of cold water, and when most of the water has been pressed out they should be dried, if possible, in the sun. Tea leaves, damp salt or a newspaper that has been soaked in water and then squeezed dry and torn into pieces are all very good for taking up dust when sweeping heavy carpets, but tea leaves should always be rinsed in water before using, especially if the carpet is a light one. Orange peel burnt in a room will destroy any c!ose foul smell. Place the peel la a shallow pan and let it burn for several minutes. When washing glassware lo not put it in hot water bottom first, as it will be liab'.e to crack from sudden expansion. Even delicate glass can be safely washed in very Iict water if slipped in edgewise. Evea candle ends can be of use. Collect all the small ends melt them, then add as much turpentine as you have candle grease. Let it cool, and use it for polishing floors, oilcloth. etc. This makes a splendid polish, and is much Letter than beeswax. Be very particular about disinfecting the kitchen sink. Washing soda, two tablcspconfuls to a gallon of boiling water makes an excellent and inexpensive wash to pour into the sink after you have finished using It. Cream for Bon Bons Three cups sugar, one and one-half cups water, one-half teaspoon cream tartar, flavor with essence vanilla. Boil until drops will almost keep shape in water, then pour into a bowl set in cold water, stir steadily with a silver or wooden spoon until cold enough to bear the hand, then place on a platter and knead until of a fine even texture. If too hard, a few drops of warm water may be stirred in; if too soft, it must boil again. This is the general foundation of cream bon bons. It may be flavored with chocolate, by adding a tablespoon of melted chocolate while the syrup is hot. Valois Cream For a medium-sized mould have four sponge cakes cut lnJo thin slices with preserves between each. Pour over these sufficient flavoring extract to moisten. Have Teady a pint of good custard, flavored with the grated rind of a lemon and a little more sherry. Dissolve one ounce cf Isinglass In a little water and strain it into half a pint of whipped cream. Arrange the pieces of cake in an oiled mould, add the cream to the custard, fill up the mould and leave until set. Turn, out to serve and scatter chopped pistachio nuts over. French Beefsteak place in a roasting tin a piece of the best rump steak; dredge with flour, pepper and salt, almost cover with water, roast for twenty minutes; then cover with sliced onions, pepper, salt, roast thirty minutes; cover with sliced tomatoes, roast twenty minutes; then sprinkle over with grated icheese, roast again for ten minutes. Serve on a hat dish and if basted every ten minutes previous to the sprinkling of the cheese it will be very tender and delicious. Philadelphia Ledger. Fruit Wafers Mix a cup, each of cleaned raisins, figs, dates, and nuts, and force twice through a meat chopper. Add' a few drops of vanilla or lemon Juice, then knead until well blended on a board dredged with confectioner's sugar; roll to. a thickness of one-fourth inch; cut into rounds with the top of a salt shaker or into three-fourth Inch blocks with a knife. Roll In granulated sugar and pack in tin, boxes between sheets of paraffine paper. Good Housekeeping. The American people spent as much money last year for. gems and jewelry as they spent for pianos and other musical Instruments, and .more than three times a3 much as they spent for sewing machines. - France . exports about 13,000,000 worth of eggs a year; half of them go to England.

MEAT TENDERER.

After Use Leaves the Meat In a Compact and Tender Condition. Many different varieties of meat tenderers have beeu patented, some more theoretical than practical, but still fulfilling the purpose for which they were designed. One 6f the latest Is shown In the illustration below, the invention of a Connecticut man. It is simple and can be conveniently and quickly manipulated to effectually sever all sinewy particles In the meat, and yet leave it In a compact and tender condition. It consists of two portions, the body and a tendering tool, used in connection with the body. The body is made into a bed plate, having legs to bold it elevated from a support, and a combined pressure and guide plate of practically the same dimensions and form as the bed plate. In the bed plate is a series of openTENDERS THE MEAT. ings, arranged as closely together as possible consistent with strength, the openings being square. Betwt-en the bed plate and the guide plate are three pins, which keep the plates In position. In the guide plate is also a series of openings corresponding in position and registering with the apertures in the bed-plate. The tendering tool is formed of a handle and puncturing fingers, which are stellated to make a multiple of cutting edges. These puncturing lingers are arranged in rows corresponding to the openings in the plates. In operation the meat in placed smoothly between the bedplate and the guide-plat-, and the tendering tool forced into the openings, the blades penetrating the meat and severing the sinews. The operation Is repeated until the entire surface of the meat has been satisfactorily worked over. FIXED HABITS. The poet Whittier was never married. For many years be er.joyed a charming home under the able domestic management of his gifted sister Elizabeth, whom, however, be long survived; but lie acquired toward middle life and always retained some of the small, set ways usual in confirmed oltl bachelors. That be remained unmarried from necessity uo one believed he was far too delightful a man; and his friends occasionally ventured a remonstrance. IJ. F. Huntington, an old friend of Mr. Whittier, lias recently related bow another oid friend, Mrs. Kutb Challis, once sent to the ioet the present of a jar of freshly made butter from her farm at Pond Hills, lie thanked her in gay verse, the last lines of which ran thus : Thrice welcome to him who, unl.lest with a wife. Sits and bungles alone at the ripped seams of life Is the womanly kiudnes which pities his fate And sews on his buttons or fills up his plate. Naturally, Mrs. Challis was much pleased with the poem ; nevertheless, the next time she met Its author she said to him with spirit: "I don't want thee to think It was from pity I gave thee thy butter. Those I pity are the ones who can't help themselves, not the ones who can and do not." "Wouid thee really advise me to marry, Ituth?" was the laughing reply. "Ali, my friends should have taken me in band years ago!" But on another occasion, when he himself asked a young girl friend if she did not think be might, bad be married, have made a "pretty good husband," be received a reply which recognized the fixed dominion of his bachelor Independence. If he had once made up bis mind to catch a particular train for Amesbury. she told him, be would have taken It, convenient or inconvenient, accompanied or unaccompanied, wife or no wife. "I Ruess thee is about right, Mary," assented the bachelor poet, with a contented laugh. Blrd Carpenter. Downy woodpeckers are carpenters by trade; so they will not content themselves with a deserted nest; they build a snug little home of their own. They generally select a fruit tree of some sort, and they seem to like cherry trees as well as any. The downy woodpecker begins the work by cutting a round hole in the body of the tree with his strong bill; and when his good little mate sees that he is getting tired, she turns in and helps him. They build a roomy nest, sometimes a foot or more In depth, and leave the door of the house just wide enough for each of them to pass in.. Like all carpeuters, they make a good many chips; and these they carry 'away, and then scatter tbem quite a distance from the tree, so that no one will find out where their nest is. The bottom of the hole Is made very smooth, and upon this six pure white eggs are laid. This curious house Is very neat and comfortable. Immaterial. Aunt Hepsy was In ecstasies over the young lady her nephew, Ike, .was going to marry. "I never saw her till last week," she said, "but I fell In love with her at first sight myself. She's good, sweet, amiable and as pretty as a picture." "What's her name?" asked the listeners. "Maria." "Maria what?" Aunt Ilepsy wrinkled her forehead, pursed up ber lips, looked at the ceiling and gave It up. "I declare, I can't think of ber other name." The general laugh that followed this confession nettled Aunt If?psy. "What's the difference about her last name, anyway?" she said, explosively. "It's only temporary. Shes going to change It!" o ltisk. "I understand your life Insurance company regarded 30U as an exceptionally good risk." "Xo," answered the displeased policy holder, "I wasn't any risk. I was a pure thing." -Washlgton Star. The average man has so little that there Is never any excuse for him hatfzz rcua Lais.

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